[Cialug] low speed cellphone data plan

[Dave Weis]

I don't have a data plan on mine but you can install the usb drivers on some 
phones and use it as a 14.4k modem. For verizon there's a number like #777 
you call and it does PPP.

David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> said:

> I had GPRS (pron: Jeepers) on my T-Mobile Treo 600 a few years ago. It 
> wasn't really very cheap, but it certainly was low-speed. I don't know 
> if any of the US GSM carriers (T-Mobile, AT&T), still offer GPRS.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gprs
> 
> -dc
> 
> Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> > A while back I was reading about a low-cost data service that used 
> > cellular networks. From the context I gathered it was widely deployed 
> > and gets speeds in the range of 32k to 64k and was priced inexpensively.
> >
> > Does anyone know what this service is called and who sells it? I was 
> > thinking it was called GPRS but when I search for that I don't find 
> > what I'm looking for.
> >
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